Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.

The best mirror is an old friend.

A great dowry is a bed full of brables. [A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

In the great green room, there was a telephoneAnd a red balloonAnd a picture of a cat jumping over the moon...

Leadership defined: An equal and dual commitment to both results and relationships without compromising one for the other.

Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'

If kids got raped at Denny's as often as they get raped at church it would be illegal to take your kids to Denny's.

I have a much easier time imagining how we would understand the big bang, even though we can't do it yet, than I can imagine understanding consciousness.

Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.

College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.